Waiting for Christopher

New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age
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".flowing prose and vivid characterization.Hawes deliverers a rewarding read."

-Publishers Weekly


".behind the kidnapping drama, Hawes' eloquent words reveal complex truths of family love and sorrow."

-Booklist


"Hawes is excellent on the day-to-day difficulties of caring for a toddler, especially in secret."

-Washington Post


"Hawes deals poignantly with loss and longing in a novel that is full of disappointment and heartbreak but that in the end offers hope."

-The Horn Book